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Post by Connie on Nov 26, 2008 0:41:19 GMT -5
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Post by havingfunnow on Nov 26, 2008 2:17:13 GMT -5
This just goes to prove what I have always told the Spousal Unit. If you're too drunk to walk, then you've got to drive!
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Post by audrey on Nov 27, 2008 9:49:11 GMT -5
Did I mention I have really strong opinions on drunk driving? Lock him up and throw away the key. He is going to kill someone. If you drink and drive nothing good can come of it.
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Post by havingfunnow on Nov 27, 2008 12:49:33 GMT -5
Actually, I don't drink alcohol, which really disqualifies me from a lot of surveys. I never realized how much research the alcohol industry did. But I have heard of DAMM - Drunks Against Mad Mothers
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Post by Connie on Nov 28, 2008 22:05:39 GMT -5
No way! There really isnt' such a group is there? Nothing surprises me these days..
Honestly.. I DO drink.. way too much.. BUT I try to be realistic... ONE drink is too many if I have to drive.. I was reading a deal the other day.. this guy had already done FIVE convictions for DUI and was on his sixth!
Statistics show that most drunk drivers have already been on the road 2000 times before getting caught.. come on! That is just plain scary...
This guy got 25 years to life.. wow! He will have spent HALF his life in prison for something that didn't need to happen..
Thank GOD no one got hurt.. too scary!
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Post by havingfunnow on Nov 29, 2008 2:23:47 GMT -5
Nah! No such group - old joke. 2000 times seems a little severe as that would equal driving drunk every night for five and a half years. I found a study that in Hawaii, it is about 87 times before being caught. So it is indeed scary, and drunk drivers are a threat at any time of day. But late evening is the most dangerous. In the past, I have been motioned over for a couple of sobriety checkpoints. I didn't mind,
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Post by Connie on Dec 1, 2008 15:30:30 GMT -5
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Post by havingfunnow on Dec 1, 2008 17:32:46 GMT -5
The author of the article is a graduate student in Political Science with way too much time on his hands. Personally, I think his arguement is without merit. To legalize doing something that impairs a person's cognitive reasoning, so those same people will be more careful doing it makes about as much sense as an elevator in an outhouse. It's called impairment for a reason.
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Post by Connie on Dec 1, 2008 19:33:05 GMT -5
LOL... that was pretty much my take on it as well.. If we legalize meth then an argument could be made that people wouldn't share needles because they could easily buy them OTC?
Makes about as much sense in my mind anyway.
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